Q: I’ve got one PAL PS3 from my brother bought in Australia. Can the PAL PS3 play the Region 3 DVD discs?
From above words from the PAL PS3 user, we learn that the user wanna play Region 3 DVD discs on PAL PS3. It’s obvious that some other PS3 users would have the similar problem that if they can play the DVD discs on PS3 while the PS3 and DVD discs are purchased from different regions. Here we’d like to solve the problems for all of the PS3 users.
On the PS3 official website, it claims that they gave the PS3 system a built in CD/DVD player which can meet the needs of some users who have a DVD collection and still like to watch. As a matter of fact, these problems concern the region issue. DVDs have the ability to encode an option which specifies which regions in the world the discs can be played that means you can only play DVD discs on PS3 which are of same region. Then how to play Region 3 DVD movie on PAL PS3? Here’s the suggestion. Use Brorsoft DVD Ripper to unlock DVD region restrictions for PS3 and rip commercial DVD discs to hard drive, and connect the hard drive with PS3, then you can play the DVD movie from hard drive freely. Below is the detailed guide, please take through it.
Step 1: Import the DVD movie to the best DVD to PS3 Converter.
Free download Brorsoft DVD Ripper and launch it as the best DVD to PS3 Converter. And then click icon like a disc or disc folder to load your DVD movie from disc to the best DVD to PS3 Converter.
Tip: Freely select the subtitles for you DVD movies from the “Subtitles” option. Thus, you can transfer DVD movie to PS3 with preferred subtitles.
Step 2: Select an output format for PS3 and set the output folder as you need.
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”. From the sublist, the H.264, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV formats are compatible with PS3. Of course, you can also choose the output format from “PSP/PS3”. From the sublist, the “PS3 Video(AC3 5.1)(*.avi)”, “PS3 Video(480P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)”, “PS3 Video(720P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)”, “PS3 Video(1080P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)” are all the friendly formats for you to put Region 3 DVD movie onto PAL PS3.
Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface.
Note: As we know, standard DVDs generally are 720*480 or 640*480 video resolution and about 4 Mbps bitrate. According to our test, MP4 video with 480p and 2000kbps is an excellent choice, which could be nearly DVD video quality and only be about 2GB for two hours.
Step 4: Start converting your Region 3 DVDs to MP4 for PAL PS3.
Click the “Convert” button; it will rip/convert Region 3 DVDs to MP4 for PAL PS3 immediately with the CUDA acceleration technology support. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.
After the Region 3 DVDs to MP4 for PAL PS3 conversion, you will be able to get the output files for PAL PS3 via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Afterwards, you can transfer the output video to PS3 using a flash drive and then you can play Region 3 DVDs on PAL PS3 at ease no longer with the region lock matter.
